# The Thomas Love Peacock Collection

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- Book: [The Thomas Love Peacock Collection](https://www.bookquiver.com/thomas-love-peacock/the-thomas-love-peacock-collection) ([The Thomas Love Peacock Collection.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/thomas-love-peacock/the-thomas-love-peacock-collection.md))
- Authors: [Thomas Love Peacock](https://www.bookquiver.com/thomas-love-peacock)
- Publisher: hachette_india_little_brown
- ISBN: 978-93-5731-241-7
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2025-11-20
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

For novellas from the master satirist! Nightmare Abbey (much like Northanger Abbey of the same period) is a satire on the phenomenon that the 'Gothic Novel' had become and spoofs the genre while being a part of it. Headlong Hall was his first long work of fiction, and Crotchet Castle – in both books Peacock follows the same framework of assembling a group of eccentrics, each with a single monomaniacal obsession, and derives humour and social satire from their various interactions and conversations. The Misfortunes of Elphin is a short historical romance set in sixth century Wales, which recounts the adventures of the bard Taliesin, the princes Elphin ap Gwythno and Seithenyn ap Seithyn, and King Arthur.